Pearl River Delta: the third pole of China's semiconductor industry?

Guangdong is a big province of China's electronic information industry, electronic information industry in 2005 industrial output exceeded 900 billion yuan, 190 billion yuan of industrial added value, export delivery value of 670 billion yuan, is expected in 2006 Guangdong Province electronic information industry will become the province's first total output value exceeded 1 trillion yuan of industrial added value will exceed 200 billion yuan. The rapid development of electronic information industry in Guangdong cultivated soil, as Guangdong's semiconductor industry development today, Guangdong also actively take advantage of "Pan Pearl River Delta (9+2) model of regional cooperation, and relying on a new round of overseas investment risk trend of upgrading PRD semiconductor industry competitiveness, the Yangtze River Delta, Bohai area and narrow the gap.

Design base

Experts pointed out that the focus of the development of the Pearl River Delta semiconductor industry is to further create a IC design base, IC design to lead the development of the semiconductor industry in the Pearl River Delta, which is also consistent with the development trend of China's semiconductor industry. In recent years, China's semiconductor industry continues to adjust the structure, one of its main characteristics is the share of the design industry in the expansion.

Statistics show that in 2005 China's integrated circuit (IC) industry output of about 30 billion, compared with the same period last year, an increase of 36.7%, sales revenue of about $75 billion, an increase of 37.5%. Is expected in 2006 will continue to maintain this good growth, production will reach 42 billion, sales will reach $102 billion.

The rapid development of the IC industry, the structure tends to be reasonable, and gradually move closer to the advanced foreign standards. Over the past few years, Chinese low cost strategy development in the field of semiconductor packaging and testing, the first development, since last year, IC to improve the industrial structure, while maintaining rapid growth, the proportion of packaging industry in the whole industry chain of IC gross decline, while the IC design industry, IC wafer manufacturing industry rapid development. 2005 China IC packaging testing industry revenue of about 34 billion yuan, an increase of about 20.3%, while the IC design and IC wafer industry revenues were about $13 billion 100 million and $28 billion, an increase of 60.8%. Packaging testing accounted for 45.3% of the total value of the industry chain, compared with last year's decline of, while the IC design industry and IC manufacturing output accounted for 17.5% and 37.2%, respectively.

Insiders pointed out that although the IC packaging and testing industry is still in the IC industry "boss", but the industry structure has been gradually to the foreign advanced standard to rationalize the industrial structure.

Pearl River Delta has a national IC design base, two provincial design base.

Shenzhen National IC design industrialization base is one of the 7 National IC design industrialization base in China, was founded in 2002, investment 150 million yuan, has now completed the EDA public technology platform scale, test center and personnel training, MPW (multi project wafer), the IP library and a series of Public Technology Trading Service Service platform. Shenzhen high tech Industrial Park has gathered a group of high level integrated circuits have the core technology of the design center, HUAWEI, ZTE, Lenovo, the Great Wall, TCL, SKYWORTH and other large enterprises and some multinational companies have formed the industrial community.

Guangzhou IC design center by the Guangdong provincial science and Technology Department, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of science and technology and South China University of Technology jointly built by the end of 2003 officially opened. This is the second national IC design industrialization base of Shenzhen of Guangdong province after another integrated circuit industry base, which is built on the development strategy of the integrated circuit industry in Guangdong Province, the introduction of design and development simultaneously, enhance the level of modernization process in the Pearl River Delta region play a very important role.

Zhuhai new economic resources development in Hong Kong is one of the national software industry base, Guangdong province is also the integrated circuit design and production base, the Zhuhai Department of actions, wide, SF, Jian Rong and many other semiconductor design companies have been stationed in Hong Kong economy.

Design grade needs to be improved

Deputy Secretary General of Guangdong semiconductor industry association chairman He Tao said, the construction of the industrial base of the incubator for many start-ups, providing software and hardware integrated circuit design and testing service environment for them, and the successful implementation of the MPW plan, product development to provide the necessary means for the start-up and successful enterprise.

The construction design of the base of the cultivation like actions of such leading enterprises. The actions of sales revenue has exceeded 1 billion 200 million yuan, ranking first in the country's ten largest MP3 chip design companies, its design and production has accounted for 40% of the global market, the international market ranked second. ZTE microelectronics has become the communications IC design enterprises to fully grasp the large-scale deep submicron digital IC design technology, SoC design technology, analog and mixed signal IC design technology, the design conditions and foreign advanced IC company, design specifications and the industrial chain upstream and downstream companies at home and abroad fully practice.

According to He Tao introduction, IC product development success more than and 180 design enterprises in the Pearl River Delta and mass production mainly by the manufacturing process of 0.35 micron /0.25 micron /0.13 micron technology, CMOS, Bipolar, covering BiCMOS, BCD and other technology fields. The main products for the audio circuit, analog circuits, such as standard series of traditional products or low-grade products, accounting for half of the design industry sales revenue. This shows that the design of the product has yet to be improved, but also that the design industry has great room for development.

He Tao said, Guangdong integrated circuit design has formed a preliminary design and design services, including the IC design industry chain, but compared with the national IC design industry, design sales revenue and growth rate has yet to be improved. In the past few years, the manufacturing and packaging testing industry is driving the absolute growth of the IC industry